The practices, or disciplines of the Christian life function to nurture correspondent love. The disciplines are not themselves the sum and substance of communion with… Read More »The Practices of Correspondent Love
Love for God’s beauty is known not only by imagination and through changed nature, but also by exposure. The writer of Theologia Germanica wrote, “And… Read More »The Process of Correspondent Love
One’s nature determines much of one’s desire for God. What is inherited from Adam and from biological ancestors, partly determines what one desires. Unless the… Read More »The Position of Correspondent Love for God
What relevance does understanding beauty in general revelation of creation have for understanding the special revelation of God’s beauty? This is a perennial question asked… Read More »Beauty: the Link Between General and Special Revelation
We continue with the next three aspects of experiencing beauty in creation. Immediate Response After contemplating beauty receptively, we experience an immediate response, which is… Read More »Judging Beauty in Creation (2)
The two domains of God’s revelation are general revelation and special revelation. God has revealed Himself to all men generally through the created order, and… Read More »Judging Beauty in Creation
Beauty defined may be abstract and remote; beauty described should be concrete. What does beauty look like? For that matter, since beauty is not only… Read More »Beauty’s Description
If beauty is ultimately God’s self-knowledge and communicative self-delight, we can explain easily enough why other theories of beauty have defined beauty as harmony and… Read More »Beauty’s Definition: What About the Cross?
Defining beauty is no easy task. A definition of beauty or the beautiful has eluded the grasp of those who wish a definition with mathematical… Read More »Beauty’s Definition
After more than a century of grappling with Descartes’ division of knowledge into “subjective” and “objective”, eighteenth-century thinkers developed a way to rescue the concept… Read More »Beauty’s Difficulties: The Problem of Taste
The topic of beauty suffers not only because its definition is disputed, but because beauty is often a victim of misidentification. These wrong associations lead… Read More »Beauty’s Difficulties: A Case of Mistaken Identity
For a while, it seemed chic to be able to say the word postmodern in a sermon. The belief-system behind the word is rather drab.… Read More »Beauty’s Difficulties: A Christian Response to the Subject-Object Dilemma
Perhaps the most frequent objection levelled at those wishing to see beauty restored to a central place in Christian thinking is that beauty represents “subjective”… Read More »Beauty’s Difficulties: Subjective and Objective
The discussion of beauty among Christians is often stymied before it starts. Some of this is due to a long-standing suspicion towards philosophy felt by… Read More »Beauty’s Difficulties: Philosophy versus Biblical Authority
As surprising as it might sound, beauty lies at the heart of motive. Why we do what we do is a question of desire, and… Read More »Beauty and Motivation
Sometimes throwaway lines leave a deep impression. One of those were words written on a blog I avidly followed about fifteen years ago. The writer… Read More »Beauty, Ethics and Worship
Beauty does not only encourage a pursuit of reality, but beauty encourages a Christian epistemology. It teaches how we know what we know. The Enlightenment… Read More »Beauty and Knowledge
Beauty has made a comeback. After years of being relegated by intellectual elites to the junkyard of old and outdated concepts, it is now popping… Read More »Beauty and Reality
What possible value can the study of beauty deliver? Isn’t this fiddling while Rome burns, counting daffodil petals while barbarians lay siege to the city?… Read More »The Value of Beauty
Once we understand that beauty is close to glory in meaning, we will without any difficulty find beauty at the heart of many Christian endeavors.… Read More »Beauty and Christianity’s Primary Endeavors